Take-off

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I have a grading plans for a big area, I want to do the take-off to estimate the construction. Is it possible? if yes, how?

Thank you,

[steven-g]

You might on a good day find someone browsing here in the Forums who does exactly that, but for the rest of us a dwg that shows what you are working with and an explanation of what exactly you are taking off would help enormously in trying to figure out how exactly (or not) you could achieve that using LT. Talking of grading brings up images of using civil3D but depending on the drawing file information you have and the limited tools that LT has available you might be able to do something. We just need a bit more information.

[Anonymous]

So I need to do take-off, for example, for pavement, side walks, 6" excavation... etc.

The grading plans I have are about 40 acres divided in lots for houses construction.

I can't share the plans for company policy but I appreciate the help you can provide.

Thank you,

[pendean]

Autodesk Civil3D has that feature, called TakeOff, is this what you want to do https://uscad.com/blog/quantity-takeoffs-autocad-objects-civil3d/

LT has no such ability built in.

There is this method (used on a building, might be relevant) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aisXXSwctlk with this tip https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/quantity-takeoff-in-autocad-2013-to-excel/m-p/6769938#M...

[steven-g]

+1 pendean

If you are unable to show us what you are working with then the link from pendean shows one of the best ways that LT has for doing take-offs, as that is not what LT is designed for doing. Civil does have those time-saving tools built-in and if you do this regularly it would in the long term save money. If you are lucky enough to have objects that are already polylines 'closed' then it would speed up the process tremendously.